May, 1921] The Figworts of Ohio 229 



1. Dasystoma virginica (L.) Britt. Smooth False Foxglove. 



Glabrous and glaucous perennial with stout, usually branched stem, 

 3-G ft. high. Leaves usually all petioled, the lower ones pinnatifid, 4-G 

 in. long, the upper ones pinnatifid or deeply incised. Flowers very 

 striking; corolla pure yellow, glabrous outside, about 2 in. long, in leafy- 

 bracted racemes. Capsule glabrous. In woods. July-September. 

 Adams, Fairfield, Clarke, Cuyahoga, Fulton, and Wood Counties. 

 (Aureolaria flava (L.) Farw., according to Pennell.) 



2. Dasystoma pedicularia (L.) Benth. Fernleaf False 



Foxglove. 



A much branched, leafy annual or biennial, 1-4 ft. high, more or 

 less glandular and viscid. Upper leaves sessile, the lower ones usually 

 petioled, pinnatifid, 1-3 in. long. Corolla 1-13^ in. long, pubescent 

 outside; calyx-lobes foliaceous, usually pinnatifid or incised. Capsule 

 pubescent. In dry woods and thickets. August-September. Fulton 

 County. (Aureolaria pedicularia (L.) Raf., according to Pennell.) Our 

 two specimens belong to the variety A. ambigens (Fern.) Farw., densely 

 glandular-hirsute . 



3. Dasystoma flava (L.) Wood. Downy False Foxglove. 



Erect, usually simple, sometimes branched perennial, 2-4 ft. high, 

 pubescent with a fine, grayish down. Leaves oblong, lanceolate, or 

 ovate-lanceolate, usually opposite, entire, or the lower ones sinuate- 

 dentate, or sometimes pinnatifid, 3-G in. long, short-petioled, the upper 

 ones much smaller and sessile, becoming bract-like. Corolla pure yellow, 

 1^-2 in. long, glabrous outside. Calyx and capsule pubescent. In dry 

 woods and thickets. July-August. Eastern Ohio, as far west as Erie, 

 Clarke and Adams Counties. (Aureolaria virginica (L.) Pennell.) 



4. Dasystoma laevigata Raf. Entire-leaf False Foxglove. 

 Simple or sparingly branched perennial, 1-3 ft. high, glabrous or 



nearly so, but not glaucous. Leaves lanceolate or ovate-lanceolate, 1H~^ 

 in. long, usually petioled, the upper ones entire, the lower ones dentate 

 or incised. Corolla yellow, glabrous without, hairy within, l-l^/i in. 

 long, the limb fully as broad. Capsule glabrous. In dry thickets. 

 July-August. Jackson, Adams, Vinton, Hocking, Fairfield, and High- 

 land Counties. (Aureolaria laevigata (Raf.) Raf., according to Pennell.) 



• 14. Agalinis Raf. Agalinis. 



Erect, branching herbs, some shrubby, with opposite, 

 entire, sessile leaves, and large, showy flowers in racemes or 

 panicles, or solitary in the axils. Corolla slightly two-lipped, 

 campanulate or funnelform, five-lobed. Stamens four, 

 didynamous, included; filaments pubescent. Capsule ovoid or 

 globose. Seeds numerous, mostly angled. 



